Yared Hagos and Andreas Valdix are both out but Sheffield will sign d-man Jace Coyle as a spare import.

The club first decided to try and bring him back weeks ago. And as there are no suitable offensive players seemingly available it is likely Coyle will drop into the D allowing either Mike Ratchuk, Anders Franzon or Zack Fitzgerald to play wing.

Last night, Steelers went into combat at league leaders Cardiff icing three centres including d-man Mike Ratchuk and four sets of wingers.

If there was a player who’d really want to score in Cardiff it is ex Devils winger Jonathan Phillips - and he opened the scoring at 23;25.

But Markus Nilsson took a penalty, Andrew Lord equalised and Guillaume Desbiens blew his top with the officials, getting kicked out of the game at 24.18.

Jace Coyle - Sheffield Steelers v Coventry Blaze 13/03/16

Steelers, who beat Edinburgh on Saturday 7-1, then had a goal disallowed and went behind to a Guillaume Doucet goal at 36:01.